SPOKE: Journal of Christ

too small a price

I awoke to the jailer turn the key and push the door
Get out her he shouted

But i stayed there on the floor
frozen in the terror that rose and filled my brain
For what i knew what they intended i could not face the pain

then soldiers came into to cell and they dragged me to they yard
they threw me done before a cross and a dropped the wip down hard
"carry it!" they shouted as i struggled to my feet, i put my shoulder under it
and dragged it to the stereet

i stumbled threw a wall of screams as they drove me threw the gate
it seemed that thousands lined the streets their voices filled with hate
like a wolf pack in the night that moves in for the kill
they closed in the for us and we started up the hill

and seemed i barely reached the top
when they grabbed me from behind

they threw the cross down behind me
and tied the ropes that bind

the arms close to the beam
as they nailed the feet and hands as they rose the cross up in the air
and dropped it in its stand

through a blur of pain i saw the cross there next to mine
there were people all around it, so i looked to read the sign
It was nailed there up above his head
So the world could see the news
that the man who seemed so helpless there
was the KING of all the jews

and the crowd that stood around his cross made jokes about his name
they shouted laughed and spat at him so i joined in the game

I said "HEY if your the king why don't you get us down from here!!!"
but the taunt sounded hollow...... it echoed in my ears

cause he looked at me with eyes that seemed to reach into my heart
they shown a light on all my lies and tore my life apart
there was more that laid behind that gaze then simply blood and clay
but knowing was to much for me, i had to look away

But i chanced another look at him while he was looking down
Where the soldeirs who just crucified us drank there on the ground
and although he spoke them quietly some how his words came through
He said "Father please forgive them they don't know what they do"

then as if they heard him speak, the crowd began to roar
wipped to frenzy by the priests who urged them on to more

but the worst the accusations now the plainer i could see
the guilt, the accusers, not the one there next to me

But the man upon the other cross bagan to curse and swear
and his voice was filled with venom as he hurled it through the air

all the horror that was in him and it laid his life to waste
came out in every syllable he flung in Jesus face
and Jesus only looked at him

but something rose inside of me in spite of all that watched us there it couldn't be denied
because his righteousness and innocence was shining bright and strong
i just couldn't keep my silence if that cursing still went on
I cried out "Don'tyou fear the wrath of God even at the end! You'll curse us both in the pit is that you intend we're only getting what we deserved we sinned our whole life long
but don't you talk to him that way he's done nothing wrong!!"

Then with all my courage, in voice not quite my own i asked him "Lord remember me when you come into your thrown"
He answered me and even then his love was undesguised, he said "before the has sun set today you'll be with me in paradise".

The shouts and curses did not stop even when the sunlight ceased, but somehow in the midst of it my soul had been released
And though the agony continued, it was still to small a price, to be allowed to hear those words

and to die beside the Christ
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And the darkness changed to dawning. I heard the sound of voices.
The air was warm around me. I stood beside a stream.

And Abraham was speaking to the multitudes before him.
The unfolding of the answer to our prayers and hopes and dreams.

Then far across the chasm came a rumbling like a thunder
And the Prince of Peace came shining, from His mouth the power streamed.

And the walls and towers crumbled and the gates of hell went under.
A thousand sang the victory! We have been redeemed!

Jesus is the Lord of all, Jesus is the Lord of all,
Jesus is the Lord of all, we have been redeemed!

~Don Francisco

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